This is a retroactive review. This is a retroactive review because I wasn’t planning to write a review—my original plan was to spend a nice evening at the theater and celebrate that I was out past …
The Chicago Feminist Film Festival is back and now in its second year—from March 1-3, Columbia College Chicago will feature 55 films and shorts from countries around the world, providing a medium to s…
I am in therapy. Because of climate change. Over the past several months, it has gotten to the point where I feel this gnawing, heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I see an article…
The speed with which the Women's March on Chicago has been organized is staggering. Following the results of the November election, retired attorney Teresa Shook created a Facebook event to take…
As our nation slowly truffle-shuffles towards the general election, I find myself fascinated by the Republican Party. It has turned into a Kafka-esque human centipede, with Donald Trump emerging trium…
I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of plaid. It is just after 10 p.m. on a Saturday night, and the iO Theater is a swarm of students and performers mingling by the bar that circles the exposed space at…
I hate dating. I would like that to serve as backstory for doing what I did. I hate dating. I hate the small talk, I hate the questions about the mundane, I hate the slightly more complex questions…
The inaugural Chicago Feminist Film Festival begins this Thursday, April 21, following in the tradition of other long-standing festivals, such as Women in the Director’s Chair. The two-day event will …
Well, it’s over. That’s it. The election, and potentially our republic, is over. Thank the mental image of Eric F. Trump dressed up as baby Jesus laying naked and prostrate in a manger, but it is fini…
